The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-09-16

away in the summer TO the mount
ings of their old homes, to find a
cool, shady place, aud drunk cold
spring or we'll water. The veil wa
ter In Dallas is surface water and
full of lime. They are boring now
for artesian wells and think they
won't have no more trouble about
water. seen curious sight when
| was there. A clSteFn give ont,
and they had well water hauled
from away out in East Dallas and
put in it--enOugh to do till 1t rain
ed. They say it is a common thing
to fill cisterns from that we'll. Some
like it better than the rain water.
Cousin Pink lowed it give her the
blues to see folks buy water.
We bad all sorter weather in
April, not sunshine and shower,
like it most inginnerly is IN Ala.
bama, but heat and cold and wind
aud rain aud "northers," but most
ly hot weather, like June or July,
that makes you feel good -tnr-noth-
in. Que day all of a suddint CHATS
the way with everything in that
part of Texas) thar come a swarm
of house flies like the plegs on
Egypt-these tame, affeetIonate
flies that crawl on your hands and
face and cau't be insulted; the more
you knock 'em off the better they
like you. You can't tell me a hy
don't live but twenty four hours.
One tuck notion to my face and
bothered me for week-the same
old fy, The minute be lit knOwed
him he alters picked his time, TOO,
after dinner when was dead to go
to sleep; he'd drap down on my left
wear aud crawl around to my upper
lin: | knowed him so well had
him named. They left all of sud
dintlike they come; a norther come
and kilt 'em out. Them nOrthers is
QUAR-, they blows up in an hour or
SO as colG as Christmas, after its
been hol as August, aud you got
to work fast to keep from ketchln, OF
your death of cold. Kindle a fre
rop M and git out'n the wind. The
wind is another cu'o0s thing out
thar. 1t blows on all sides of you at
once't: you turn and twist to git
ont'n, but it ketches you ever way
ron turn, and it blows most ingIn-
nerly all the time, but they say when
it is so hot if the wind didn't blow
YOU couldn't stand it. Them Texas
folks don't ketch no cold in the
wind no how. They love it in tfe
summer and will pay high rent for
a room With south breeze, they
say il comes from the gull and Is
the coolest.
Dallas used to be mighty dusty
in dry weather and muddy in wet,
but they work the streets and keep
'em splinkled now and the crives is
nice. It's good road to the fair
grounds-21 miles. The building
out thar looks as fiue as the exposl-
ton M New Orleans. We seen a
horse they AK sixteen thousand dol
lars for. H. looked like pIcktnre
in a patent Office report. Sangers
store is the biggest thing in Dallas
it kivers a whole block-goes
through from Elm to Main street
and YOU can git anything from a
paper of pins TO Brussels carpet
they keep hundred and nifty
clerks busy as bees all the time
BlankinShip & Blake's shirt fac
tory is a big thing too. Two nun
drrd and fifty women at work max
ing shirts; two hundred aud fifty
sewing machines, side by side, run
by gas engine. The women donT
have to work their feet, all they gol
TO do is to handle the work one
machine sews up the seams, anoth
or works the button holes and 10th
er cuts the hole after its worked
They have cuttin' machine wha
man cuts "a pairs of pants in les
than five minutes, and hits all ruI
by that same gas engine, bet up 0l
one little light no biggeTn the III
eeud of your finger.
Some folks don't believe it whel
/ tell 'em theirs 40, 900 people 10 Dial
las, bat you wouldn't doubt 1t
you'd 60 thar. 1t comes higher be
lug on wheels than any place over
seen. You look down Elm stree
any day aud its thick With carriages
} bugeies, wagons, bicycles, tricycle'
, velocepedes-and all in werk, on
/ u tryin' to keep ou.'n the tother
, way.
Them that hain't got no way I
| ride goes on street-cars and RAJ
!. roads. Eight railroads run to Ia
las. A body can git into most an
4 kind of business thar and do well
|, they'll work. Me aud Cousin Pin
' went TO Hot Springs, Ark, too
!. but ( can't tell you about that 4
n npr time. BETSY HAMILTON.